{"id":368369,"date":"2020-08-18T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368369"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:57:33","slug":"india-travel-demand-high-says-lufthansa-as-air-bubble-flights-to-germany-resume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/india-travel-demand-high-says-lufthansa-as-air-bubble-flights-to-germany-resume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India travel demand high, says Lufthansa as air bubble flights to Germany resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lufthansa Group on Monday expressed confidence that air travel demand to and from India remains high despite the COVID-19 lockdown disruption, as it welcomed the bilateral air bubble agreement which allowed Germany\u2019s largest airline to resume flights from India last week.<\/p>\n<p>George Ettiyil, Lufthansa Group\u2019s Senior Director for South Asia Sales, said the airline is offering more than 40 flights from Frankfurt and Munich to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore until the end of August, beyond which it hopes to formally apply for inbound flights to India in consultation with Indian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor India, one of our most important international markets, we are seeing positive developments after it was more or less cut off from the rest of the world since mid-March,\u201d said Ettiyil, in reference to the coronavirus lockdown which grounded flights in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lufthansa Group on Monday expressed confidence that air travel demand to and from India remains high despite the COVID-19 lockdown disruption, as it welcomed the bilateral air bubble agreement which allowed Germany\u2019s largest airline to resume flights from India last week. George Ettiyil, Lufthansa Group\u2019s Senior Director for South Asia Sales, said the airline is offering more than 40 flights from Frankfurt and Munich to Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore until the end of August, beyond which it hopes to formally apply for inbound flights to India in consultation with Indian authorities. \u201cFor India, one of our most important international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}